A text screen isn’t very big and you only have so many characters, so whatever you have to say, you make it brief. No, this doesn’t mean you should save deep and important conversations for other venues, jst mke sure u abbrvi8 all ur wrds or only use da verbs!

Efficiency

Ever have those days when you want to connect with lots of people? Like Holidays? Those are they days when you feel like you should acknowledge all your friends, and Facebook is so impersonal, so you decide to go with phone contact. But since you run the risk of any or all of your friends actually wanting to talk with you, and who knows HOW much time THAT would take, you can send them a text message! What’s more, since you’d probably tell them all the same thing anyway, you can send a generic group text saying, “Merry Christmas!” or “Happy New Year!! J” to everyone, all at once! Friendships enriched, time saved, problem solved.

93% of communication is non-verbal, through eye contact, voice tone, rate of speech and all around body language. But with a text, you don’t have to deal with any of that! You can get right to what you want to say with no distractions! More than that, when you read a text, all you have to pay attention to is the words on your little screen because nothing else goes through.

Face to face conversation is awkward because of that pesky body language and those troubling para-verbals. You can actually see people’s feelings and how they’re responding to what you say, especially if you’re being rude or insensitive. And who wants to do that? With just a few quick texts, some without fully spelled out words, you can get your thoughts out without having to deal with other people’s emotions!

No Need for Thought

When you send multiple texts back and forth, you can call that a full conversation. And you can now store a written record of your conversation in your phone! You can keep a record of all your conversations with all your contacts! This means you don’t really need to pay attention to what’s being said because you can always just look back over what the other person’s been saying. So all that energy and focus you used to put into active listening when talking with a person voice to voice or face to face? Completely unnecessary!

No Responsibility

In a text you can say anything and not see the person’s face or hear their voice. What’s more, you don’t have to have the whole conversation at once, if you decide to finish it at all! You can carry on a conversation or even an argument in between errands, bathroom breaks, meals and other conversations. And when it’s done, or if the person says something you don’t like, there’s the handy dandy “Delete Multiple Texts” feature.

Escapes

Texting is silent and private. No sound while you glance down at your hand held device. This means you can text in class, at work, in church, at dinner parties, or even dates. In other words, with the wonder of texting at your finger tips, you can escape the actual face to face conversation in front of you and communicate with someone vastly more interesting.

For me there’s a time and a place for both.
Calling:
I want to have a conversation with a friend or family. I fancy a bit of banter. I’ve got time for a chat. I won’t need to cut a conversation short. I’ve got plenty of minutes left on my monthly plan. I need to find out or organize something quickly and require an immediate response or find out quickly that person isn’t available anyway. There are multiple points I want to cover that would be time-consuming and annoying in a multiple SMS exchange. Where even multiple points can be made in a single SMS exchange but there are and/or variables for either party and it’s simply easier for a phone call.
Texting:
Texting is convenient if I’m getting ready and I want to get a simple quick point across. A text can be really short between guys who don’t need pleasantries and small-talk, e.g. “Ace cafe 8pm?” “Sure, see u there :)”. Texts are good to send info like an address or postcode (zip-code) or phone number so the other party doesn’t need to find a pen, or write something down on paper. Texting is convenient if you’ve already had a conversation in a phone call and you’ve forgotten a minor point; this can be especially apt if the other person has difficulty holding a brief conversation, or if you know the other person is getting ready or was just about to have a shower etc. (if it’s important follow-up with a call – that call is then much easier to keep brief). Texting is useful when the same message is for multiple recipients, e.g. “Ace cafe 8pm?” “Sure” “Why not! :)” “See you there!” “I’ll be there at 9” “Sorry, can’t tonight”. Texting avoids putting the other person on the spot if a decision has to be made – it gives them time to think about it, check their diary, to lie if you want to allow them the discretion of not having to say it directly. Texting is useful if your reception is bad, liable to be lost, the other person has bad reception, cannot receive calls and you’ve just tried calling – that person will now get your message when they regain reception without simply a missed call; a text message may be easier for you than a voice message (personally, I fumble voice messages if there’s no one at the other end to acknowledge single points or prompt for the next one, and I just feel awkward closing, “Bye, er, bye :-S”). Text messages are part of most monthly plans – I’ll save money by using them instead of a call to a friend that might end up half an hour (without realising), leaving me no included time for calls to family(!), or for necessary calls to companies. Texting is appropriate when you’re meeting up later. How many times do you call someone you’re meeting up with later, only to talk about everything you have in your latest conversation itinerary, then have less to talk about later? Or you talk about things and then they’ve already heard it when you talk about the same stuff later with other friends in a planned meetup? Isn’t it better to tell a joke to all your friends at once than have someone already know the punchline? Texting is good if your voice isn’t ready in the morning! Or you’re not feeling sharp for a chat. However, long multiple text exchanges are tedious and feel childish. A rule: if more than 1 or 2 replies will be required, or a long (running over 2 SMSs) text is necessary just call, or call if actually easier than texting, or so many words just aren’t in the T9 dictionary and you give up and just call.

Those are some excellent thoughts!
I hope hope hope really hope, though, that the reader of this post can discern the utter sarcasm with which I wrote this post….
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Some points:
That 93% of communication that is body language plays an important role, and what is lost over texting is LOST. Less is being communicated; it is much more than just a “distraction.”

People want to connect with others emotions! When we don’t the experience feels shallow and an overwhelming void builds up in our lives and eventually we look around and wonder what the hell we’ve been missing. Your sentence– “you can get your thoughts out without having to deal with other people’s emotions!” sounds like it is backed by self-preservation and fear. Emotion is what made this world–don’t hide from it, your own and others’.

I understand the joys and conveniences and abilities that texting has given us, and I don’t mean to play the part of a troll, but I thought I’d
Express my Feelings.